When you hear the Catholic Church referred to as a "sleeping giant," it's largely because for generations (post-Vatican II) the jettisoning of solid doctrinal teaching and the peddling of a soft, plush-toy Jesus put most of us to sleep. And tens of millions of us sleep-walked en-masse right off the deck of St. Peter's Barque.
With no defenses against attacks on our faith, and worse, no tools and weapons with which to build up the kingdom and fight against immorality and ignorance, we were sitting ducks for every fad and fashion society was selling. In a sense, we ourselves became irrelevant, except as consumers.
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